The UK Youth Parliament will be allowed to hold a meeting in the House of Commons following overwhelming approval from MPs – after a two-hour long debate. The BBC reports: The move, which was resisted by a handful of Conservative MPs, will see the chamber being used by non-elected parliamentarians for the first time. Opponents said

The UK Youth Parliament is set to use the House of Commons Chamber over the summer recess, despite opposition from some MPs. Quite how they can object to it, I don’t know. The Commons Chamber sits unused for so much of the time - whenever MPs are on any of their extremely long holidays - and

MPs vote to allow members of the Youth Parliament to hold a meeting on the floor of the House of Commons.

As he chaired today's proceedings of the UK Youth Parliament (disgracefully held in the Chamber of the House of Commons itself), Commons Speaker John Bercow lauded the fact that the UK Youth Parliament is more representative than the Commons itself, saying: "I know that 50% of you are women, 22% are from ethnic minorities". Representative? The ethnic population of the UK is not 22%. According...

Despite opposition from traditionalists, MPs give nod to one-off meeting of the UK Youth Parliament in the lower house Youths from the UK youth parliament (UKYP) are to sit in the Commons for a one-off meeting this summer. Gordon Brown first mentioned the idea in the constitutional reform statement he made to parliament in July 2007 (his first after becoming prime minister). Harriet Harman put the...

HISTORY will be made next Friday when the UK Youth Parliament takes over the House of Commons chamber. It will be the first time in 300 years that anyone other than MPs has d

Members of the UK Youth Parliament are debating calls to scrap tuition fees and cut the cost of public transport for young people among other issues in the House of Commons.

Yesterday Lib Dem Voice highlighted the vote by MPs to allow the UK Youth Parliament to meet in the chamber of the House of Commons at a time when it’s not sitting. Jeremy Browne and Bob Russell were the two Lib Dem MPs to vote against. In this article for LDV Jeremy explains his position. The

The Youth Parliament will take over the Commons chamber for a second year running to debate tuition fees

Once again, the House of Lords is proving a better safeguard of our liberties than the wholly elected House of Commons: BBC: The government has been defeated in the House of Lords over the issue of keeping peoples' DNA and fingerprints on the police national database. Peers backed a Conservative amendment calling for national guidelines for deleting material by 161 votes to 150. Ministers said the...